Reporting live from the Mediterranium Cafe in Berkeley, Ca., is the realization for this blogger of the Internet’s potential from a long time ago. It took a good deal of time and some bumps in the learning process, but here we are today, March 19, 2009, sitting in a restaurant that Jack Kerouac used to patronize, and in a few moments we will hit “publish” and see it all come to pass.

We intended to post the photos of the traveling Bobbag today and when we looked through all the floppy disks (yes our digital camera is an old fashioned one that uses floppy disks) we couldn’t find the one with the photos taken at the Santa Monica Pier.

Maybe the floppy went AWOL, too?

If we find it, we will post the pictures. If we never find that floppy, then perhaps it was never meant to be that pictures of the traveling Bobbag appear anywhere on the Internet?

At the civic center hostel, I’ve just run into a couple whom I met in November at the Sydney Central Backpacker’s Hostel.

They are going to meet up with a friend in L. A. and then go to Fla.

After comparing notes with them – Yes they had a steak at the Bourbon (in the King’s Cross Section of Sydney) – I gave them recommendations for the USA. The good food deals in Vegas, the air park (museum) in Pema Arizona, the cavalry museum in El Paso, the touristy stuff in Dallas, then if they have time Memphis and Nashville, New Orleans and maybe the Sebring race in Fla.,, and/or the Ringling Winter HQ. I highly recommended the Nethercutt (car) Museum in L. A.

I recommended the Beatnik Museum for them (and the City Lights Bookstore) here in San Francisco.

I will try to get to the de Young Museum (with Warhol exhibition) today.

Life goes on (without the Bob bag).

Also have to plug the (SF) band Pullout which just came back from Europe.

The camera and I went to the intersection of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco today without the bag. We took some typical tourist cliche shots wtihout the bag. Too bad the bag went AWAL, we had fun.

On Friday, we started to try to track down the lost bag. We went to the customer service on Van Ness. They sent us to SFMTA (Muni) at Gerry and Presidio. They had me file a report and said I should check back in a few days.

So you can’t get something you lost yesterday. You have to stick around a few days. I guess that’s one way to boost tourism.

We asked if we could call collect from Australia, they said “no.”

So the bag may be gone forever. Then again . . .

On the way out of the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority building, we walked past an office with the door open.